Lieu^t David Hale Accountants Office Corps of Artillerists & Eng^rs June 24^th 1797 West Point Sir I received your letter of the 19^th Insta with the different enclosures therein mentioned, you receive Credit for the amount of the different V for bounties & Continges, being (including premium) three dollars and fifty cents. As you stand charged with One Doll thirty six cents on the Books of this Office more tha the balance stated in the account said by you to ha transmitted 28^th March last which account is not found on file. I have therefore to request you will tra a copy of it as early as posible in order to have the cau the difference ascertained and settled accordingly. I am &c W^m Simmons acc^t